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Emily L. Hauser@emilylhauser.bsky.social |
What if it's not so much doom scrolling as it is the desperate hope that one more scroll will bring good news, like we're all at a very sad slot machine in a very, very sad Vegas
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Adam Lamping 🇨🇦
@adamrlamping.bsky.social
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Hope springs eternal!
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Cynde
@cynde.bsky.social
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Eventually a scroll will reveal Trump has died
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@musiclover700.bsky.social
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That's what I've thought as well.
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Lolo Upstart
@foxymoxie.bsky.social
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Yay! A kitty video!
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Onno Benschop
@owh.bsky.social
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Mike Billips
@mbillips.bsky.social
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That’s just an actual slot machine in actual Vegas.
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Casey
@thecasey.bsky.social
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Sometimes it does bring cute pets!
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TrickyC (he/him)
@trickyc66.bsky.social
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I mean, yeah, each new scroll might hold the interaction that finds us the love and adoration that makes all the hurting stop lol
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Panic! at Nabisco
@sthomas451.bsky.social
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This is 100% it for me
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Rackle P. Tang 🦇 (she/her)
@rackletang.bsky.social
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A Vegas sadder than actual Vegas? I'm dubious.
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Ms. Doctor Doolittle
@debldillow.bsky.social
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Yep!! That’s it. And looking for the final straw that will end the madness. I realize that when good news happens I’ll hear about it no matter what I’m doing. I’m also pretty sure the straws reproduce like hamsters and there will always be more after the final one. Yet here I am scrolling. 🤷🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
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NJ
@tashjoeza.bsky.social
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📌
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DoRayMeFarTed
@doraymefarted.bsky.social
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spencer『 PROUD MORON 』soares
@pizzascrub.bsky.social
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it rules that socializing, art, entertainment, dating, are all filtered through slot machines now
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Deramin
@deramin.bsky.social
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That's why I moved to mainly being on Tumblr where The Horrors are sandwiched between jokes, art, media analysis, short stories, and other things that make me happy. That way I can enrage my brain after each rest instead of going totally numb.
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proud rebel scum ⚛️
@proudrebelscum.bsky.social
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that obit we’re all waiting for, for instance.
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Symbo1ics
@symbo1ics.bsky.social
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oh god,
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Josephine Jellybean
@josephinejellybean.bsky.social
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Fucking hell
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Hylen S
@hylen26.bsky.social
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/scrolls/
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Alex (he/him) 🇺🇦
@tsrhg.bsky.social
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Chasing the gambler's high but it's really the gambler's fallacy at work. "I'm due for some good news"
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Matt
@mattsiegel.bsky.social
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🍒🍒🍒
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Meg 🌺
@megnc.bsky.social
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Oh I feel seen. It’s like I’m trying to find *something* good to help pacify me.
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En Buen Ora
@enbuenora.bsky.social
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it is me, I am this
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Marginalien
@anaire.bsky.social
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Absolutely. My brain tells me to keep going for the post that reveals it's somehow going to be OK.
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@dylantoymaker.bsky.social
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This is the sad version of describing “hopequesting”, the version that acknowledges that unrealistic hope is one of the most dangerous things in here.
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Eric Kim (김현철)
@inkskratch.bsky.social
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Perfect, perfect metaphor
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Domen Kozelj
@domenkozelj.bsky.social
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So just a slot machine in vegas?
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Marjorie James Keenan
@unenthusiast.com
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hope scrolls eternal
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Jenna Beet
@jennabeet.bsky.social
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Oh Emily, I am sorry. There will always be cat posts 🫂
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Norma Jane
@normajane.bsky.social
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Sounds accurate.
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Guy Le Jeune
@guylejeune.bsky.social
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I won on the slots in Las Vegas. The coins poured out for 30 seconds. Then they threw me out for celebrating too loudly.
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Energetic Nova
@energetic-nova.bsky.social
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My good news was seeing you unblocked me. I’m off the medication I was on making me more aggressive for the last 6 months. Starting a new one when it gets approved. Sorry about this. Glad for the second chance. I don’t know if this will be good or bad for your slot machine but it was good for mine.
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Andrew G Davis
@agdtinman.bsky.social
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Just one more retweet. Just one more retweet.
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KyrQs
@kyrqslive.bsky.social
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This is also how abusive relationships work. Trauma bonds established through intermittent reinforcement.
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Tara O'Shea
@fringe-element.net
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it's not doomscrolling so much as hopequesting
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Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness
@indyfromspace.bsky.social
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Emily I love and hate this skeet equally because I was not ready for TEA
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@eltervoog.bsky.social
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You scroll pass the doom to get to the jokes. It's basically a video game.
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Sarah
@whtabtpineapple.bsky.social
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This feels too real. Wow.
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Anagram Doe
@anagramdoe.bsky.social
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There's an Arcade Fire song that I always think of when I think about hopeful doomscrolling Looking for signs of life Looking for signs every night But there's no signs of life So we do it again
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Frank Vehafric
@fvehafric.bsky.social
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Not good news, necessarily, but a little peaceful oasis.
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Jennifer Liang
@jenniferliang.bsky.social
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Social media is a dopamine slot machine.
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Serenity Now!
@cpo10za.bsky.social
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Jenn Wong
@jennwong.bsky.social
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Absolutely this
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Lois Griffin
@fuckablefawn.ink
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that's just called sparkling doomscrolling
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Alisha Grauso
@alishagrauso.bsky.social
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Third option: I'm ADHD and need the constant dopamine drip to scrape by every day in this hellscape.
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bettybarcode
@bettybarcode.bsky.social
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This! Plus hoping for the thing you can interact with: a great cat meme, a question for which you know the answer, a convo where you've got something legit to add
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IzanamiC⛩️
@izanamic.bsky.social
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Good analogy
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